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[threelayers]

How's my "voice?" Hah, that joke never gets old for me.

Anywho, feel free to drop any constructive criticism you want to share in how I play Neo. Anon is enabled and IP tracking should be off. All comments are initially screened for privacy.

Comments

Re: Discussion of Ableism

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really happy to know the steps you've taken to address this and grateful for your willingness to share them here. It's definitely not easy to admit fault, or to stand up and say that something got off track and may have caused unintended harm. I certainly agree that it's reasonable to think Neo experienced and internalized ableism due to her mutism, and crab theory is certainly alive and well in disabled communities. But there's a difference between acknowledging and glorifying, and those early tags seemed to fall on the latter side of the equation.

Obviously "cripple" is an ableist slur that should need no explanation. Even when portraying a disabled character, I'm going to side-eye any abled person who chooses to use hateful and harmful language. Thank you for modifying the post to include a content warning, and thanks for being open to the discussion.

You don't need my permission obviously, but if you don't want to see this hanging out in your HMD you're absolutely free to delete or screen again. I'm grateful you took the time to listen and respond.

Re: Discussion of Ableism

[threelayers]

I appreciate that you've given me permission, but I'm a flawed enough player that I think it's better if I acknowledge my flaws and learn from them. I've screwed up enough over the years that god knows I should be mindful it can happen again.

I'll angle to avoid the word "cripple." I don't think I use it right now, but it could slip in unintentionally. Right now, what I'm going to do iin any log or thread that is likely to include a reference to why she loved Roman (the fact that he was never ableist towards her at all, and never once called her his lesser.), I'll include a CW that references "Ableist Culture" Because there are aspects of Remnant that are not cool in modern society, and this happens to be one of them.

I'm doing my best to keep it to acknowledgment, though.

(I found the actual thread in question: It is on another player's log, so I'm going to do what I can to include a warning to that thread specifically, and we'll do our best moving forward. Feel free to private message me any threads that I can change warnings on for older material and I'll try to fix those CW. I'll apply the above CW moving forward. I hope this helps at least protect folks comfort a little better. Thank you for your undertanding.)